Morrosaurus

Morrosaurus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Clade: Elasmaria
Genus: Morrosaurus
Rozadilla et al., 2016
Species:
M. antarcticus
Binomial name
Morrosaurus antarcticus
Rozadilla et al., 2016

Morrosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous elasmarian dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous in Antarctica. The only known species is the type Morrosaurus antarcticus.[1]

  1. ^ Rozadilla, Sebastián; Agnolin, Federico L.; Novas, Fernando E.; Rolando, Alexis M.Aranciaga; Motta, Matías J.; Lirio, Juan M.; Isasi, Marcelo P. (2016). "A new ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Cretaceous Research. 57: 311–324. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.09.009. hdl:11336/46572.

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